[Ohrrpgce] Can't log in to wiki over HTTP

[Adam Perry]

Do you want to use the Slime Salad wiki? I'm not sure there's anything on
it worth keeping at this point.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:50 AM James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> I turned on https:// redirect for the whole site. Seems to be working
> fine.
>
> I tried the local upgrade process, and no luck. The git repo metadata is
> hopelessly corrupted.
>
> I won't get that solved today :P
>
> I'll probably have to set up a whole new mediawiki instance, make sure it
> has all the plugins we need, port over the anti-spam hacks, and then
> restore a database backup into it. Arg. That ain't happening today :(
>
> Anybody know a fully managed mediawiki hosting site? Doesn't have to be a
> free one.
>
> ---
> James Paige
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:08 AM James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would be happy to disable http completely, and always redirect http to
>> https.
>>
>> People who have an OS so old that it can't support https are welcome to
>> open a web browser on a separate device.
>>
>> I don't actually know how to do this just for the login page. I think I
>> remember an option in the dreamhost config panel to do this for the whole
>> site, but I would have to hunt for it.
>>
>> A *MUCH* bigger security concern is that I can't upgrade Mediawiki
>> anymore. It has been years since running "git pull" on a large repo in a
>> shell script on a dreamhost shared account was a viable option.
>>
>> I had a clunky workaround where I would rsync the whole thing locally,
>> upgrade it, rsync it back up to dreamhost, and then run the last stage of
>> the upgrade.
>>
>> I am always terrified that I will break the whole thing every time I do
>> that, but maybe I will give it a try today since I happen to be on a
>> vacation day and have time.
>>
>> I would really like to move the whole wiki to a place where the upgrades
>> were automatically managed for me. I haven't had time to look into that (in
>> years)
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:57 AM Adam Perry <arperry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is not a good idea to have an HTTP login page. Your credentials are
>>> sent in plain text when you log in via HTTP.
>>>
>>> I realize that the OHR wiki isn't the most high-profile target for
>>> hackers, but it's still a bad idea. We don't need to allow wiki editing to
>>> everyone able to use the engine if it means compromising security.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 8:45 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Holly reported, and I can confirm, that you can't log into the wiki, or
>>>> create an account, when accessing it over HTTP instead of HTTPS. (I think I
>>>> remember seeing this already quite a while ago.) You get the following
>>>> message:
>>>>
>>>> "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has
>>>> been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit
>>>> the form."
>>>>
>>>> It is nice to be able to access the wiki via HTTP, since HTTPS is
>>>> inaccessible from ancient OSes such as some of those we support. If the
>>>> login page could redirect from HTTP to HTTPS...
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, maybe I should file such things on github instead...
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